Pradeep Chaudhry will also continue to serve in his current role as CFO of HARMAN Connected Services division. He succeeds M Lakshmi Narayan, who will serve as an Advisory Chairman until December 2016.

Richard Palmer will be reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne. He will succeed Riccardo Tarantini, who has elected to retire from the Group after more than 35 years of dedicated service.

A global recruitment process will commence at the beginning of next year. Mikael Bratt will remain in his current position for up to six months until a new head of the Volvo Group’s global production organisation is appointed.

In his previous role, he was leading the in-house creative agency at Ericsson. Prior to that, he was a part of corporates such as Royal Enfield, The Times of India Group, Tata Interactive Systems and Tata Infotech.

Amit Jain, CEO, Girnar Soft, said, “His experience in dealing with acquisitions, fundraising and expansion to multiple countries can create tangible impact on our business. We look forward to working with Umesh as we scale CarDekho to newer heights.”

According to the announcement ,which ETAuto has access to, Kaher Kazem, who recently moved to India from Uzbekistan, has been appointed as President and Managing Director of GM India, effective January 1, 2016